ok, well this is my first try at a shikamari fic, so be patient, please.

Shikamaru and Temari barely knew each other at the start of their sophomore year at Konoha-Suna High. well, that is not to say they didn't know of each other, they were in a few of the same classes and things like that, but they didn't know each other personally. This was all about to change.

Temari was somewhat of a member of what some people might call The "Popular" Group, however still retained a bit of dignity and was not a ditz (two things Shika was thankful for later on).

Shikamaru had usually been a relatively quiet student, who got average grades and was the self proclaimed "Lazy Champion of the Universe". He always seemed to blend in crowds, and nobody really took much notice of him. Of course, this was before he became keyboardist (and backup vocals. don't forget that) in Konoha's new, and extremly popular "boy band" :The Leaf Boys. (yup, you guessed it. Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Mike Love, I am very, very sorry.)

Surprisingly enough, the band had started out playing copius amounts of The Beatles and R.E.M. (yep, my favorite bands all right) Of course, that all changed when Naruto found out that Shikamaru had been right all along, and that it was possible to write his own songs. That was when the band stopped playing in small cafes around Konoha, and started to have bigger concerts devoted completely to them. (well, U2 played at some of these concerts, but sadly, nobody cared)

So, after that brief introduction, our story begins at the front door of Konoha-Suna High School. (god, I sounds like a freakin "Masterpiece Theater" narrator, except wittier, and more smexy)

Anyways, our story begins with Shikamaru, walking into the school, and grumbling about how troublesome it was to have to go back to school, and have all these girls gaping at him and how smexy they thought he was. He looked at his class schedule, and saw he had AP English first, with Kakashi. From what he had heard from his friends about AP English, Kakashi mainly made them read M-rated novels. Not that anyone in the class complained, of course. The claees started at 8:45 sharp, apparently. With a groan (and, as he groaned, all the girls around him sighed dreamily) he looked at his watch. 8:43, it blinked at him.

"Shit," he said to himself, "Class is all the way on the other side of the building. Guess I'll have to run for it."

As he started to run, the girls around him (who had previously been muttering something in a large group, all the while sneaking furtive glances at him) squealed "He's running away! Go after him!"

Shikamaru looked around in surprise to see a mob of teenage girls chasing after him. "Crazy women," he muttered under his breath. " Why couldn't they have gone for Naruto or Sasuke instead? They're the "pretty" ones. But nooooo. Damn fangirls."

Little did he know that those girls had been the first to school that morning, just waiting for a "Leaf Boy" (I crack up every time I type that) to come into school so that they could mob him, and that his watch was, in fact, running fast that morning, and was really only 8:00. Naruto and Sasuke wouldn't be arriving for another half an hour.

After 10 minutes of running as fast as he could, he arrived at the AP English classroom. Chest heaving, he slammed the door behind him in the nick of time, and locked it. He turned around to see an empty classroom. He looked at the clock on the wall. It read 8:10. He swore loudly, and a gasp was heard from outside the room. He then walked over to the windows on one side of the classroom, opened one, and went through to the outside of the school.

After setting his watch to the correct time, he decided to sit and wait for class to start. At 8:45, he climbed into the classroom, heard bangings on the door, and muffled shouts from outside the room.

"Shit." He went over, and unlocked the door. A stream of students cam inside, all looking for the guy who had locked the door. The found nobody, as Shikamaru had hid behind the door, then mingled with the crowd as they searched for him. Of course, Kakashi was 15 minutes late. 15 loooonnng minutes, thought Shikamaru, as he had spent all of them sitting in a chair at the back of the classroom, with fangirls drooling at him and guys glaring.

It was then that he decided he wanted to quit the band.